1. Caeibsa.] 74. APOCYNACEM. [5. Albtovia. 



" Jiirsuta " with branches and cymea and leaves beneath pubescent is 

 also found in Chota Nagpur. 

 The fruit is eaten. 



Thevetia neriifolia, Juss. Berenjo, 8„ is a, very common large 

 evergreen shrub in gardens, of quick growth, with crowded 1-nerved 

 linear leaves and large yellow funnel-shaped corollas. Fruit a large 

 green drupe with a very hard usually 2-celled stone. 



Plumeria acutifolia, Poir. Champa pungar, gulanj baha, B-, is 

 another small trea very commonly cultivated. It has very thick round 

 branches, leafless in the hot weather aid large narrowly elliptic leaves 

 with strong horizontal parallel sec. nerves which are crowded at the ends 

 of the branchlets. Pis. about 2 lf diam. fragrant white with a yellow 

 eye in terminal cymes. Fruit follicular. 



4. Rauwolfia, L. 



1. R. serpentina* Benth. Chandra, Beng. 



A pretty glabrous undershrub 1-2 ft. nigh with Dright 

 green shining opposite or 3-4-nately whorled oblong or 

 obovate acnte leaves 5-7" by 2-2|" and small white flowers 

 with pink tabes in peduucled bright red cymes. 



Valleys esp. in grass lands, rare. Fls. May-July. Fr. July-Aug. 



L. narrowed into the J-f* petiole. Pedicels red. Drupes £4* 

 diam. black. 



The root is a renuted cure for snake-bite. 



5. Alstonia, R. Br. 



1. A. SCholaris, #• Br. Kunumung, K. ; Chatni, S. 

 Chatawan, H. 



A usually straight handsome tree with the branches and 

 leaves whorled and greenish-white flowers in nmbellately 

 branched cymes. Fruit of two slender follicles 1-2 ft. long, 

 pendulous. 



Valleys in Sinerbhum, not common ; Tundi hills in Manbhnm 

 Hazaribagh, rare ; S. P. (SiUngi). Fls. Nov.-Jany. Fr. r.s. Evergreen. 



L. 3-7 usually 6 in a whorl, 4-8" by l-2i" oblanceolate or oboyata 

 glabrous whitish beneath, base narrowed into the >--£ * petiole. 

 8ec. n. numerous close horizontal. Inflorescence puberulous sessile 



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